Friday, May 16, 2008
I was out of the state for Indiana's primary ten days ago, and I realized I didn't even know who won in the local races, so I'm digging up those results.
I found this race interesting: GOP Dan Burton had a real challenge. I predict (wag) that Burton will retire at the end of this term and McGoff, a former Marion County coroner, will win the seat two years from now.
Clayton L. Alfred 2729
Dan Burton 45447
John McGoff 39418
Andre Carson was renominated for his mother's US house seat. My friend Hippie Joe got a respectable 1100 votes, beating out 3 also-rans.
Jill Long narrowly won the Dem label for governor against Mitch.
Jim Schellinger 568199
Jill Long Thompson 581095
Mitch Daniels 349740
Hillary Clinton 645336
Barack Obama 630925
14411 margin out of
127661 votes.
So Hillary won by about 1.1 % in a race where about 1% of the voters are disenfranchised by voter ID. I wonder if that could have made a difference?
I found this race interesting: GOP Dan Burton had a real challenge. I predict (wag) that Burton will retire at the end of this term and McGoff, a former Marion County coroner, will win the seat two years from now.
Clayton L. Alfred 2729
Dan Burton 45447
John McGoff 39418
Andre Carson was renominated for his mother's US house seat. My friend Hippie Joe got a respectable 1100 votes, beating out 3 also-rans.
Jill Long narrowly won the Dem label for governor against Mitch.
Jim Schellinger 568199
Jill Long Thompson 581095
Mitch Daniels 349740
Hillary Clinton 645336
Barack Obama 630925
14411 margin out of
127661 votes.
So Hillary won by about 1.1 % in a race where about 1% of the voters are disenfranchised by voter ID. I wonder if that could have made a difference?
Comments:
Whether Burton will retire remains to be seen but if he does McGoff won't be the guy. McGoff is a cold fish and he is way too moderate for that district. There will be a young good-looking conservative that can talk to those people in Hamilton County but still have enough Hoosier in them to talk to farmers and small town folks in the north part of the district.
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